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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

These instructions will not work on Chromebooks with an ARM processor. If you have an ARM processor then you cannot install Chromebrew to get git. You'll need to instead install crouton. Here are instructions that you can follow: https://github.com/macton/arch-linux-install-notes/tree/master/arm-chromebook-chroot

#Configuring Chromebook for Development

After a full Sunday of trial and error, and stepping through many semi-complete or dated blog posts explaining how to do this, I was able to get the Chromebook into developer mode, install git, Node.js, and NPM.

Here's what I did...

Enable Developer Mode

Press Esc-Refresh-Power keys which will reboot the Chromebook

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

	const waitFor = (ms) => new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, ms))
	const asyncForEach = async (array, callback) => {
	for (let index = 0; index < array.length; index++) {
	await callback(array[index], index, array)
	}
	}

	const start = async () => {
	await asyncForEach([1, 2, 3], async (num) => {
	await waitFor(50)


	#https://gist.github.com/Chandler/fb7a070f52883849de35 SEE HERE

	# MIT License

	# Copyright (c) 2016 Chandler Abraham

	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

	print("UPDATE AUG 2023: this script is beyond old and broken")
	print("You may find interesting and more up to date resources in the comments of the gist")
	exit()

	from slacker import Slacker
	import json
	import argparse
	import os

	# This script finds all channels, private channels and direct messages

	package com.caioketo.owrpg;

	/**
	* Created by Caio on 31/10/2014.
	*/
	import android.os.Bundle;
	import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
	import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;

	public abstract class BaseActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

	Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

	//Title and subtitle
	toolbar.setTitle("MY toolbar");
	toolbar.setSubtitle("Subtitle");

	//Menu
	toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.toolbar_menu);

	toolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {

	// PhantomJS Cheatsheet

	$ brew update && brew install phantomjs // install PhantomJS with brew

	phantom.exit();

	var page = require('webpage').create();

	page.open('http://example.com', function() {});
	page.evaluate(function() { return document.title; });